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Upon Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall…
- Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic…
- True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest…
- We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more…
- A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man…
- As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever…
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation...
- Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is…
- Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
- Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
- Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not…
- Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
- It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp,…
- Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better…
- He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being…
- God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
- If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a…
- He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is…
- The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power,…
- True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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